Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables (Staff Pick!)

Title: Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1980, Punk, Hardcore Punk Surf Punk, San Francisco, California 8/26
Condition: New (BC) | Members: Dead Kennedys (N/A)
Cultural Facts:

1. Political Science: Before the album even came out, Jello Biafra ran for mayor of San Francisco in 1979 and finished fourth out of ten candidates with more than 6,000 votes. His campaign mixed absurd proposals like making businessmen wear clown suits with serious ideas such as legalizing squatting in abandoned buildings and making neighborhood police accountable to the people they served. (Wikipedia)

2. Fun Fact: When Dead Kennedys were invited to the 1980 Bay Area Music Awards to give the industry some “new wave credibility,” they were expected to play “California Über Alles.” Instead, they stopped almost immediately and launched into the never-before-heard “Pull My Strings,” a vicious satire of payola, commercial radio and musicians reshaping themselves for industry approval. (Todestrieb Records)

3. Studio Lore: Fresh Fruit was produced by guitarist East Bay Ray with the mysterious credited producer “Norm,” capturing Ray’s eerie surf-guitar influence alongside Biafra’s theatrical voice and political satire. That collision of California surf music, punk speed and black comedy gave Dead Kennedys a sound unlike most of the emerging hardcore scene. (Wikipedia)